1970 GTO Version 2.0

[andrewb70]

The benefits of being a bachelor and living alone include being able to have a bunch of car parts in the living room and not hearing "THE DISPOSAL IS CLOGGED!!!" LOL

Besides the engine swap I am doing some suspension mods. I already have some coilovers in the front. The springs in the front are 550 lb/inch. They were marginal with the big block. I think they will work very well with the L92, so for now I am not messing with them. In the rear I currently have some springs that I got way back in the day, from HO Racing.

Who remembers them? If you do, your old!!!

I wanted the ability to adjust the ride height in the rear and more importantly have the ability to properly set the corner weights once the car is done. There are all kinds of solutions to accomplish this, I chose a very nice product from Budzter:

https://www.budzter.com/index.html

Not cheap, but the quality is outstanding and it is a true bolt on. No hacking of the rear is required and its fully reversible. I like that. The spring is 9.5" tall, 175 lb/inch from the Coleman Racing catalog.





Andrew

[csouth]

The benefits of being a bachelor and living alone include being able to have a bunch of car parts in the living room and not hearing "THE DISPOSAL IS CLOGGED!!!" LOL

Besides the engine swap I am doing some suspension mods. I already have some coilovers in the front. The springs in the front are 550 lb/inch. They were marginal with the big block. I think they will work very well with the L92, so for now I am not messing with them. In the rear I currently have some springs that I got way back in the day, from HO Racing.

Who remembers them? If you do, your old!!!

I wanted the ability to adjust the ride height in the rear and more importantly have the ability to properly set the corner weights once the car is done. There are all kinds of solutions to accomplish this, I chose a very nice product from Budzter:

https://www.budzter.com/index.html

Not cheap, but the quality is outstanding and it is a true bolt on. No hacking of the rear is required and its fully reversible. I like that. The spring is 9.5" tall, 175 lb/inch from the Coleman Racing catalog.



Andrew

Love reading your thread. I wanted to use these on my Cutlass, but seems he's not making any sets right now because of coating issues.

[andrewb70]

Love reading your thread. I wanted to use these on my Cutlass, but seems he's not making any sets right now because of coating issues.

Thanks for the compliment Chris. If you do get the spring adjusters, I suggest using some thrust bearings between the springs and the adjusters.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HAL-7888-109/

They will make adjustments a lot easier. I wish I had done this when I installed them...

Andrew

[csouth]

Thanks for the compliment Chris. If you do get the spring adjusters, I suggest using some thrust bearings between the springs and the adjusters.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HAL-7888-109/

They will make adjustments a lot easier. I wish I had done this when I installed them...

Andrew

I just pulled the trigger on some SPC springs from Marc at SC&C. I called Budzter and the gentlemen said he stopped making the adjusters because he can't get them coated anymore . He was willing to sell me them uncoated, but he didn't recommend that being I'm in Michigan....I'm still saving the link for future reference.

[andrewb70]

I just pulled the trigger on some SPC springs from Marc at SC&C. I called Budzter and the gentlemen said he stopped making the adjusters because he can't get them coated anymore . He was willing to sell me them uncoated, but he didn't recommend that being I'm in Michigan....I'm still saving the link for future reference.

I don't recall them having any sort of exotic coating. It looked like black oxide to me, which isn't very resistant to corrosion anyway. I would just rattle can them. Seriously...

Andrew

[93Polo]

Thanks for the compliment Chris. If you do get the spring adjusters, I suggest using some thrust bearings between the springs and the adjusters.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HAL-7888-109/

They will make adjustments a lot easier. I wish I had done this when I installed them...

Andrew

I was just reading about these did you go with the setup that has shims or without?

[andrewb70]

I was just reading about these did you go with the setup that has shims or without?

I used the thrust bearings on the front coilover kit, not on the rear. I definitely should have used them on the rear as well. Luckily when I had the car corner scaled the rear's did not need a lot of adjustment as it would have been very hard to do without the thrust bearings.

Andrew

[David Sloan]

The benefits of being a bachelor and living alone include being able to have a bunch of car parts in the living room and not hearing "THE DISPOSAL IS CLOGGED!!!" LOL

Besides the engine swap I am doing some suspension mods. I already have some coilovers in the front. The springs in the front are 550 lb/inch. They were marginal with the big block. I think they will work very well with the L92, so for now I am not messing with them. In the rear I currently have some springs that I got way back in the day, from HO Racing.

Who remembers them? If you do, your old!!!

I wanted the ability to adjust the ride height in the rear and more importantly have the ability to properly set the corner weights once the car is done. There are all kinds of solutions to accomplish this, I chose a very nice product from Budzter:

https://www.budzter.com/index.html

Not cheap, but the quality is outstanding and it is a true bolt on. No hacking of the rear is required and its fully reversible. I like that. The spring is 9.5" tall, 175 lb/inch from the Coleman Racing catalog.



Andrew

Do you by chance remember the part number for these springs ? My search is not giving me anything with a pigtail
Thank you sir!